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Progressive Conservatives push their One Million Jobs Plan that would kill 100,000 middle-class jobs and throw Ontario into labour chaos. EDITORIAL Toronto Star May 14 2014 How can Tim Hudak do it all? In an election platform that is at best counter-intuitive, the Progressive Conservative leader is now promising to blend extreme fiscal austerity with a newfound […]
Read More →LINDA McQUAIG iPolitics May 14 2014 One of my all-time favourite comments by an economist goes like this: “If two people claim to have seen a UFO, with one person claiming that it was large and the other person claiming that it was small, should we assume that the UFO was medium-sized?” This great comment […]
Read More →When the most salient part of a political leader’s education platform is to cut teaching jobs, we should all be worried. SACHIN MAHARAJ Toronto Star May 13 2014 Concern over the deficit used as the rationale for large spending cuts. Claims that these cuts will somehow increase private sector employment. Exhortations that we need to do […]
Read More →EDITORIAL The Chronicle Journal May 13, 2014 If Tim Hudak becomes Ontario’s next premier and follows through with his plan to hack the province’s pubic service by slashing a whopping 100,000 jobs, we can guess where the pain will be felt the most. Hudak’s hatchet will likely come down hard on rank-and-file earners who toil in […]
Read More →DAVID REEVELY Ottawa Citizen May 13, 2014 The Progressive Conservatives’ own analysis of Tim Hudak’s plan for Ontario is a lot more radical than Hudak says his plans are. Here’s a description of the gap and how Hudak explains it.
Read More →MARIA BABBAGE The Canadian Press May 13 2014 Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak threw a juicy bone to Ontario voters Tuesday, promising to phase in a 10 per cent cut to personal income taxes after a Tory government balances the budget in 2016. It’s the latest pledge in what he’s called a plan to help create […]
Read More →WILL CAMPBELL The Canadian Press May 12 2014 A major Ontario election platform announcement from the Progressive Conservatives nearly went off the rails Sunday as transit officers put the brakes on a subway photo-op by leader Tim Hudak. Hudak and a throng of media were in the process of boarding a Toronto subway train around noon […]
Read More →ADRIAN MORROW The Globe and Mail May 11 2014 Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has sought to dictate the agenda of the Ontario election and portray himself as a tough, serious leader. But misadventures with the PC’s photo opportunities keep overshadowing his bold pledges. The latest misstep happened Sunday, when Toronto Transit Commission enforcement officers […]
Read More →Give the Tory leader credit for laying his job on the line by promising to lay off 100,000 public servants. By: Marti Regg Cohn Toronto Star May 10 2014 Hello Tim Hudak! If Ontarians hadn’t noticed you yet, they’ll know you soon enough. Give the Tory leader credit for laying his job on the line: […]
Read More →ADAM RADWANSKI The Globe and Mail May 10 2014 Tim Hudak could have tried to turn Ontario’s June 12 election into a referendum on Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals, or on the legacy of Dalton McGuinty. To his credit, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Leader has instead opted to run on his own vision of what the province should look like, […]
Read More →ADAM MILLER The Canadian Press May. 10 2014 Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak announced Saturday that if elected he would make Ontario’s business taxes the lowest in North America, which would create 120,000 new jobs in the province. Reducing corporate taxes by 30 per cent — down from the current 11.5 per cent to eight per […]
Read More →DAVID REEVELY, Ottawa Citizen MAY 9, 2014 A Progressive Conservative government would cut 100,000 people from the public payroll to try to balance the provincial budget by 2016, leader Tim Hudak said Friday, exempting only front-line health workers and those in the justice system. The Tories would freeze public-sector wages, cut the pensions of newly hired […]
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